The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-07-30
THH OHIO REPUBLICANS.

THH OHIO REPUBLICANS,
What may he regarded as the initial
grand republican convocation PREPARATORY
10 the presidential conflict Of 1888 was
held at Toledo on Thursday, 1t was the
"opening of the ball." especially in behalf
of John Sherman, and laid down the pro
gramme on which the campaign is 10 be
conducted If John Sherman Is the candid
ate, and on which, In his view, and that OF
Of is party In Ohio, II oUgM To be con.
Quoted whoever Is the candidate.
That programme consists mainly OF
stupendous series of wants which, If moi
entirely covering "the earth" involves al
least such an amount of political control
and increased taxation and expenditure as
would he equivalent TO turning over to the
ownership of tie party little short of the
whole United States.
First they want John Sherman for Pres
ident; which would give the party all the
offices.
Secondly, they want more tariff, as If the
present high tariff, Il relict of the high tax.
ton period of the war, and in favor of a
"iudicious reduction" Of which every ma
tional convention of every political party
for the last 30 years has made vague and
hollow pledges, didn't cover about every
conceivable article that can possibly need
protection" They want such tariff as
will secure to American citizens the mar
ket for every thing that can be made or
raised here,-as we'll as corn and potatoes,
and every article of manufacture, so that
the country shall be as If surrounded by a
Chinese wall, with no exchange OF pro-
ducts with any part of the outer wood,
Yet-thirdly-that our shipping may not
be entirely destroyed, they demand subsi
dies, involving millions more of taxation, to
build more ships and to keep them ailoat
whether they can get freight or not.
| Fourthly, they want more PENSIONS mot
that the provisions for pensioning soldiers
already In forcs are not liberal enough, but
where claimant can't meet the liberal re
quirements of these laws, they want con
gress to meet every rejected claim by a
special law, and not content with the 400
such special laws passed by the last con
gress, they demand that no such special
law shall be vetoed by the President, tho
investigation may show 1t to be gross and
shameful fraud, as many of such cases
vetoed by President Cleveland clearly
we're, who Is denounced for his manly
stand against that disgraceful species of
'boodlerism."
They cant "the present policy, under
which our country has received from Eu-
rope great bodies of honest, industrious
citizens" to remain untouched. so that our
manufacturing and mining lords can al
ways import freely whatever "pauper la
Dor " of the old world they need to keep
In due subsection the knights and other
unions and associations of American labor
that might otherwise demand higher wages
than ths aforesaid "lords" care 10 pay but
they want rigid laws psssed against any
| further immigration of anarchists social
| lists, communists, or any of those foreign
doctrinaires who may put bad notions into
the heads of our workingmen and render
them troublesome to the lords" to control
They C0nt the negroes in the south tore
ceive the same wages as laborers as are
paid to white laborers, whether they earn
as much or not; and they want for the
| negros a free ballot and fair count rs
sumtng, of course, that every negro who
has such will vote the republican ticket
thousands of colored voters In the south no.
toriously do-do 80 under compulsion.
And, lastly, they want more sumptuary
laws for Ohio, and Foraker for governor
because Foraker Is the embodiment of the
Ohio Idea, that not only must every man in
the South accept the results Of the war
Internationally" but he must beliere that
the war, on the part of the South, in all Its
principles, aims and objects, was wrong,
and whatsoever down there" dissents from
that idea" Is still rebel and a traitor.
In word the Ohio programme is made
up of promises of enormous grabs on the
public purse In the form of increased tariff
exactions under the delusive and wicked
idea that thereby American labor Is bene.
flied; of more enormous grabs In the
form OF subsidies to huge steamship and
other transportation monopolies; of more
grabs la the form of increased liberal -
pension allowances-to tickle the soldiers
when the limit of liberality In that oil.
rection has confessedly already been nearly
reached by the present democratic con
] gress and of revival Of all the bitterness